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Blu-ray discs Hobbits (Fictitious characters) Drama Imaginary wars and battles Imaginary wars and battles Drama Kings and rulers Drama Man-woman relationships Middle Earth (Imaginary place) Drama Nobility Drama Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) 1892-1973 Film adaptations United StatesFilter By Authors
Bakshi, RalphSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD LordFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 7Summary: "This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the season begins, encouraged by the Red Wedding slaughter in the Riverlands that wiped out many of their Stark nemeses, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact. But can they survive their own egos as well as new and ongoing threats from the south, north and east?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RSummary: The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FANTASY HOBBakshi, Ralph
Summary: Frodo the Hobbit and his friends fight to save Middle-Earth from the Dark Power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015Summary: "With the Army of the Dead--led by the Night King, his White Walkers and an undead dragon--bearing down on Jon and Dany and their combined forces, a denouement eight seasons in the making will be reached, answering a myriad of questions surrounding the fate of the series' protagonists. Meanwhile, Jon's true identity promises to undermine Dany's claim to the Iron Throne...and, or course, Cersei...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 8Summary: When Sara and her friends arrive at her family's Louisiana lake house, they quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of sexy fun in the sun. But they soon discover the lake is infested with hundreds of flesh-eating sharks, and a few equally dangerous human predators, that turn their killer vacation into a bone-crunching battle to stay alive!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: All Alex's life he has worked for his father in the family's murder-for-hire business. Now his life is out of control. In the throws of a mid-life crisis, he wants out of the business and he wants change in his life. Unfortunately, his father won't let him quit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRESummary: From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious look into the Trump presidency, animation style. Starring two-dimensional avatars of Donald Trump and his merry band of insiders and family members, this cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump, his confidants and bon vivants. It's a workplace comedy where the office is oval, a character study in search of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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4 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOB RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOBContents: Discs 1 & 2: Blu-ray 3D, extended edition, parts 1 & 2 -- Disc 3: Blu-ray, extended edition, plus the filmmakers commentary (includes New Zealand: Home of Middle-Earth: Part 3) -- Disc 4: Blu-ray, the appendices part II: The gathering storm/chronicles of the Hobbit; part 3 -- Disc 5: Blu-ray, the appendices part 12: Here at journey's end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie HobbitSummary: Join Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and brave members of the Fellowship as they continue their quest to destroy the Ring of Power. As darkness descends on Middle-earth, a strange creature named Gollum leads the heroes to the Black Gates of Mordor. The rest of Middle-earth prepares for a battle that will decide the fate of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lord 2003Summary: Explores the formative years of the renowned author's life as he finds friendship, courage, and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including the author's tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ToSummary: The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hobbit 2013Summary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008